In the this episode the conversation between Jill Fellows and I shifts topics. We move on from discussing podcasting and public scholarship to the content of Jill’s research: the interplay between gender and technology. Jill tells me about the digital divide and some of the ways that our biases are reflected in technology and how we think about technology.

Dr. Jennifer Jill Fellows teaches philosophy and is the Associate of Arts Coordinator at Douglas College. She also hosts two really terrific podcasts: “Andraste’s Gadfly” (which examines various philosophical topics as they apply to or manifest within the Dragon Age series of games) and “Gender, Sex, and Tech! Continuing the Conversation” (which is — as one might suspect from its name — about the interplay between gender, sex, and technology). And, she seems to be constantly on CBC Radio discussing super-fun topics like whether you’d make it onto Santa Claus’ nice or naughty list, our relationships with AI, and the history of feminized computers.

Links:

• https://www.douglascollege.ca/
  
  
• https://andrastesgadfly.opened.ca/
  
  
• https://gendersextech.opened.ca/
  
  
• https://canadianscholars.ca/book/gender-sex-and-tech/
  
  
• https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/are-you-on-santa-s-nice-list-it-depends-on-his-moral-framework-1.5851562
  
  
• https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/bots-like-chatgpt-aren-t-sentient-why-do-we-insist-on-making-them-seem-like-they-are-1.6761709
  
  
• https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a-harem-of-computers-the-history-of-the-feminized-machine/id151485663?i=1000584009084